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S.M. Country: Belgaum, Ritchie l^BifiTRin. Throiigbout the greater part of India 

 in tlie plains ; Ceylon, Oabul, Beluobistan, Persia, Mauritius. 



Var. ampIe,vicaiiJis. Bristly with hairs arising from tubercles, but 

 Lardly at all villous, glabrous beneath except on the nerves and veins. 

 Trichodesma amjjjlexicauJe (sp.), Koth, Nov. PI. tSp. (1821) p. 10-1; C. B. 

 Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 153 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 173 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 170. 



Scarcely deserring of even varietal rank. Mr. C. B. Clarke (Fl. B. I. 1. c.) sugo-ests 

 that it may probably be a form of T. indicuin. I bave olten endeavoured to find even one 

 reliable cbaracter by wbich to distinguish between tlie species T. indicum and T. am- 

 plexicaule, but bave failed to do so. Tbe amount of bairiness of tbe lower side of the 

 leaves cannot be relied upon as a constant cbaracter. I bave seen specimens, authori- 

 tatively recognized as T. amjdexicaule, wbich were more densely villous tban many of 

 tbe otlier species. In fact, what E. Brown (Prodr. p. 496) says of Trichodesma zcy- 

 latricum, viz. that it is " a polymorpiious plant especially in tbe amount of coarse 

 hairs and jjubescence," is equally true of T. indicum. 



2. Trichodesma zeylanicum, R. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 496. 

 Annual, erect, 1-2 it. high ; stem stout, often purplish, and, as well as 

 the branches, clothed with long soft hairs. Leaves 2-4 by |-1 in., 

 lanceolate-oblong, acute or subobtuse, densely clothed above "with short 

 stiff hairs from bulbous white bases, finely pubescent and with a few 

 pustular hairs beneath, base usually narrowed ; petioles i-i i,]^ lono-, 

 often obscure or almost 0. Flowers light-blue, numerous, "usually in 

 terminal bracteate paniculate cymes (occasionally a few solitary flowers 

 in the upper axils) ; pedicels J-| in. long, slender, hairy, nodding ; bracts 

 foliaceous. Calyx divided to the base or nearly so, clothed with soft 

 appressed hau's, rounded at the base ; segments ^ in. long at flowering 

 time, lanceolate, acute, with strong midrib, pubescent inside. Corolla- 

 tube i in. long, campanulate ; lobes about yL in, long, somewhat obovate, 

 rounded, plicate, witli a sudden spirally-twisted acumination JL i„. 

 long from a triangular base. Cone of the anthers \ in. long, densely 

 hairy at the back ; anthers lanceolate, hairy at the base, the produced 

 linear acute connectives about as long as the cells and finally spirally 

 twisted at the apex. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style \ in. long", slender, 

 glabrous ; stigma minute. Nutlets -^-4 in. long, broadly ovoid, subobtuse, 

 faintly margined, the inner face slightly rugose, the back smooth and 

 polished, grey Avhen ripe. Fl. B. L v. 4, p. 1.54; Grab. Cat. p. 134- 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 173; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 202; Woodr. in Journ! 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 170 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, 

 p. 80. Borago zeylanica, Jacquin, Icon. PI. Ear. v. 2 (1789) t. 314 

 (corolla-lobes not properly shewn). — Flowers : Jan. 



KoNKAN : Matberan, H. M. Birdwood. Deccan : Poona districts, Woodroiu ; 

 Ambeghat, Kanitkarl S. M. Country: Belgaum, Ritchie, 1843.' ; Badami, IVoodrow. 

 Kanaka: Woodrow. Gujarat: Baroda, Cookcl; on tbe Atavesi south of the Tapti 

 river, Gibso7iex Graham. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malaya, Australia, 

 Mascarene Islands. 



3. Trichodesma africanum, 2i. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 496. A 

 branched herb 1-1| ft. high, deiisely clothed with very stift' sharp white 

 prickly hairs springing from bulbous bases which are white when dry. 



